Wednesday, April 21, 2010

Evo Morales' message to grassroots climate talks – planet or death | Environment | guardian.co.uk
"Planet or death!" chanted Bolivia's leftwing president, Evo Morales, to a crowd of 20,000 people. "We will be victorious!" the crowds answered back, waving rainbow-coloured, chequered Andean indigenous flags.
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His president will have raised some eyebrows though with bizarre comments in his opening address that both baldness and virility are the consequences of genetically modified chickens and potatoes and that Coca-Cola is "poison and sewage water". Bolivia's first indigenous president, a former llama herder and coca grower, added: "Either capitalism dies, or it will be Mother Earth."
Another campaign chair, Rep. Tom Grady, bails on Crist | pnj.com | Pensacola News Journal
Grady said he disagreed with Crist on market-based insurance, climate change and judicial appointments.
What's The Cost If Congress Fails? - Energy & Environment Experts
[Marlo Lewis] “What’s the cost if Congress fails” to enact a cap-and-trade or carbon tax bill? The “cost” is actually a multitude of benefits...
Maria Rodale: Does Climate Change Exist, and Does It Even Matter?
The first mistake was calling it global warming. Even though, in aggregate, the planet is warming, in general, people like warmth. People don't move to Florida when they retire to hang out with alligators. They go to bask in the warm weather. And while we might be sad to see the glaciers melt, hardly anyone lives up there, anyway; and now they won't have to spend so much to heat their homes, right? Last summer in Pennsylvania, it was cold and rainy all summer long. So not only did it not feel like anything was warming, but it also blighted all of our tomatoes, which totally rankled!

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